Jeff Atkins

Publications

• Compatibility of Aerial and Terrestrial LiDAR for Quantifying Forest Structural Diversity
• Seasonal and inter-annual variability in litter decomposition and nitrogen availability in a mid-Appalachian watershed
• Regional- and watershed-scale analysis of red spruce habitat in the southeastern United States: implications for future restoration efforts
• Sustained Three-Year Declines in Forest Soil Respiration are Proportional to Disturbance Severity
• Scale dependency of lidar‐derived forest structural diversity
• Spatial Variation in Canopy Structure across Forest Landscapes
• Forest Canopy Structural Complexity and Light Absorption Relationships at the Subcontinental Scale
• Mapping Temperate Forest Phenology Using Tower, UAV, and Ground-Based Sensors
• Multidimensional Structural Characterization is Required to Detect and Differentiate Among Moderate Disturbance Agents
• Vegetation Structural Complexity and Biodiversity Across Elevation Gradients in the Great Smoky Mountains
• Mapping Temperate Forest Phenology Using Tower, UAV, and Terrestrial-Based Sensors
• Integrating gradient with scale in ecological and evolutionary studies
• Power law scaling relationships link canopy structural complexity and height across forest types
• Community and structural constraints on the complexity of eastern North American forests
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• Application of multidimensional structural characterization to detect and describe moderate forest disturbance
• Phenological and structural linkages to seasonality inform productivity relationships in the Amazon Rainforest
• Contrasting Development of Canopy Structure and Primary Production in Planted and Naturally Regenerated Red Pine Forests
• Leveraging the NEON Airborne Observation Platform for socio‐environmental systems research
• Vegetation structural complexity and biodiversity in the Great Smoky Mountains
• Disturbance‐accelerated succession increases the production of a temperate forest
• Short‐term effects of moderate severity disturbances on forest canopy structure
• Integrating forest structural diversity measurement into ecological research
• Quantifying vegetation and canopy structural complexity from terrestrial LiDAR data using the forestr r package
• USFS-NASA Joint applications workshop: Satellite data to support natural resource management: A framework for aligning NASA products with land management agency needs
• Inferring alpha, beta, and gamma plant diversity across biomes with GEDI spaceborne lidar
• Vegetation and elevation influence the timing and magnitude of soil CO2 efflux in a humid, topographically complex watershed
• Vegetation heterogeneity and landscape position exert strong controls on soil CO2 efflux in a moist, Appalachian watershed
• Aboveground Wood Production Is Sustained in the First Growing Season after Phloem-Disrupting Disturbance
• The short-term and long-term effects of honeysuckle removal on canopy structure and implications for urban forest management
• An algorithm for detecting and quantifying disturbance and recovery in high-frequency time series
• Compatibility of aerial and terrestrial LiDAR for quantifying forest structural diversity
• An experimental approach for crown to whole-canopy defoliation in forests
• Using aerial LiDAR to assess regional availability of potential habitat for a conservation dependent forest bird
• Linking Landsat to terrestrial LiDAR: Vegetation metrics of forest greenness are correlated with canopy structural complexity
• Short-term effects of moderate severity disturbances on forest canopy structure
• Mapping temperate forest phenology using tower, UAV, and ground-based sensors
• Aboveground wood production is sustained in the first growing season after phloem-disrupting disturbance
• Leveraging the NEON Airborne Observation Platform for socio-environmental systems research
• Dynamic subcanopy leaf traits drive resistance of net primary production across a disturbance severity gradient
• Reading tea leaves worldwide: Decoupled drivers of initial litter decomposition mass-loss rate and stabilization
• Forest Structural Complexity and Biomass Predict First-Year Carbon Cycling Responses to Disturbance
• The evolution of macrosystems biology
• Neon-Sd: A 30-M Structural Diversity Product Derived from the Neon Discrete-Return Lidar Point Cloud
• Structural complexity and primary production resistance are coupled in a temperate forest
• Scale dependency of lidar-derived forest structural diversity
• treetop: A Shiny-based application and R package for extracting forest information from LiDAR data for ecologists and conservationists
• Beech Bark Disease Does Not Reduce the Primary Production of Great Lakes Forests in Middle and Late Successional Stages
• Toward a Standardized Method for Quantifying Ecosystem Hot Spots and Hot Moments
• Modeling Crown-Bulk Density from Airborne and Terrestrial Laser Scanning Data in a Longleaf Pine Forest Ecosystem
• Shifting conceptions of complexity in forest management and silviculture
• Open-Source tools in R for forestry and forest ecology
• High rates of primary production in structurally complex forests
• Disturbance-accelerated succession increases the production of a temperate forest
• Disturbance has variable effects on the structural complexity of a temperate forest landscape
• Structural and species diversity explain aboveground carbon storage in forests across the United States: Evidence from GEDI and forest inventory data
• Defining a spectrum of integrative trait-based vegetation canopy structural types
• A theoretical framework for the ecological role of three-dimensional structural diversity
• Effects of forest structural and compositional change on forest microclimates across a gradient of disturbance severity
• Integrating Nasa's Gedi and Landsat 8 Oli Data for Regional Aboveground Biomass Mapping In Forested Areas Impacted by Hurricane Ian in Florida
• Structure and parameter uncertainty in centennial projections of forest community structure and carbon cycling
• Stand age, disturbance history and the temporal stability of forest production
• Effects of an experimental ice storm on forest canopy structure
• The fortedata R package: Open-science datasets from a manipulative experiment testing forest resilience
• Contrasting development of canopy structure and primary production in planted and naturally regenerated red pine forests
• Beech bark disease does not reduce the long-term wood production of two forests contrasting in age, productivity, and structure
• Using Landsat imagery to map understory shrub expansion relative to landscape position in a mid-Appalachian watershed
• Crown-Level Structure and Fuel Load Characterization from Airborne and Terrestrial Laser Scanning in a Longleaf Pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) Forest Ecosystem
• Spatial variation in canopy structure across forest landscapes
• Vegetation and elevation influence the timing and magnitude of soil CO2 efflux in a humid, topographically complex watershed